THE NEW COMMUNITY COALITION BECOMES ECOACTION PARTNERS
It’s Official! We’re changing our name to EcoAction Partners (EcoAP). We’ve also updated our mission and streamlined our work plan and activities. Our mission is to inspire,
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EARTH MATTERS: FLYING MACHINES
Editor’s note: Scientist/writer and part-time Telluride local Billy Mason is also a pilot. This week he takes a time out from his focus on the health of our planet – well,
INSIDE MOUNTAIN FILM: THE WARMEST MARCH
Editor’s Note: In several installments of their weekly Earth Matters column, Billy Mason and Anna Zivian have explored the subject of climate change from several different pe
TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL, SUNDAY AT THE PALM: “EARTH”
“Sunday at the Palm” presents “Earth” (2007). “This ‘earth’ is beautiful and worthwhile,” wrote Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times about Disney’s “
INSIDE MOUNTAINFILM IN TELLURIDE: DEEPWATER HORIZON DISASTER
Editor’s Note: It’s off season in Telluride now. Not a creature is stirring. But with May only weeks away, thoughts turn to the summer season. The kick off is Mountai
EARTH MATTERS: EARTH’S ENERGY BALANCE
Editor’s Note: The dynamic duo of Billy Mason (who wrote this post) and Anna Zivian, scholars with an agenda to save our planet, posts weekly, stories about everythi
ECOACTIONS PARTNERS: SPRING IS SPRUNG
Springtime in the Rockies. Ah yes. We go from toasty warm, shorts and tank top weather to eight inches of snow, from dry roads to muddy ruts to icy pavement and back again in the b
EARTH MATTERS: BEES ON THEIR KNEES
The news has migrated from the front page to back pages, but it’s still news: Honeybees are dying. So many bees have bitten the dust the phenomenon has a name: Colony Collaps
EARTH MATTERS: CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL
Climatologists are able to explain why rain falls, clouds form, the patterns of atmospheric circulation, the movement of the ocean currents, and much more. Nonetheless, the transfe
TNCC: SPRING SMORGASBORD
If you’re a regular TIO fan as I am, I hope you’ve been reading the “Earth Matters” column. Anna Zivian’s latest story on strawberries is a disturbing revelation.
EARTH MATTERS: STRAWBERRIES
Editor’s Note: This is another installment of a weekly series by the team of scholars/dynamic enviro-activists Anna Zivian and Billy Mason. Both have deep ties to Telluride
EARTH MATTERS: HOW WE CAN SAVE OUR OCEANS
“Out of sight, out of mind,” sadly seems to be the reccuring mantra that we have adopted toward our oceans. Our human-centric society often treats the Earth’s ocean e
EXPLORING THE SAN MIGUEL WATERSHED
When Telluride’s Wilkinson Public Library brought Woody Tasch and Michael Brownlee to Telluride for a presentation on slow money and transition towns, more than 140 attendees wer
EARTH MATTERS: A CASE STUDY IN FOOD REGULATION
In my last post, I explained that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reviewing the application for the commercialization of AquAdvantage salmon — genetic
TNCC: ZERO WASTE TASK FORCE & HURRAH FOR CHAR
The Telluride-based New Community Coalition announced its intention to form a Zero Waste Task Force at Monday’s Intergovernmental Meeting. The group will address the issue of reg
221 SOUTH OAK ADOPTS GREEN GONDOLA
221 South Oak first on board to Adopt-A-Cabin as part of the Green Gondola Project Mountain Village’ s Green Gondola Project snagged its first Adopt-A-Cabin sponsor when 221 Sout
EARTH MATTERS: BLUE GOLD FOR 21ST CENTURY
Editor’s note: This is the fourth story in a weekly series by the team of scholars/dynamic enviro-activists Anna Zivian and Billy Mason. Both have deep ties to Telluride, b
EARTH MATTERS: SOMETHING’S FISHY
The fight over genetically modified salmon In this column, I plan to talk about genetically modified salmon: Am I eating it? What is it? Why is it a problem? First – You are not
INSIDE MOUNTAINFILM IN TELLURIDE: BLUE MIND
Does the Ocean Impact Our Brains Neurologically? Editor’s note: Inside Mountainfilm in Telluride are blogs posted by Mountainfilm director David Holbrooke and his associate L
EARTH MATTERS: NATIONAL OCEAN POLICY
Editor’s note: Environmental activist and scholar Anna Zivian (see Our Writers for her full and very impressive credentials) continues the new, weekly blog she and Billy Maso
NEW COMMUNITY COALITION: WHAT A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE!
How lucky are we to live, work and play here? This past Presidents’ Day weekend gave many of us a much welcomed opportunity to catch up on work and play. I got to wear many h
EARTH MATTERS: ZIVIAN INTRODUCES NEW COLUMN
Welcome to Earth Matters. I will be sharing this space weekly with Billy Mason, who will introduce himself in a future column. The essential point is he and I will be writing for
TNCC: FOLLOWING UP, FOLLOWING THRU
Community Response to Building Common Ground #1 plus Transition Our Way The Telluride-based New Community Coalition and the Wilkinson Public Library were thrilled to have such a fa